A theory of computational implementation.

I articulate and defend a new theory of what it is for a physical system to implement an abstract computational model. According to my descriptivist theory, a physical system implements a computational model just in case the model accurately describes the system. Specifically, the system must reliab...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 191; no. 6; pp. 1277 - 1308
Main Author:	Rescorla, Michael
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Apr2014
Subjects:	Computational learning theory Accuracy Representation (Philosophy) Philosophy Causal logic
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost